ram > define
noun
- The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible.
- Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries.
- synonyms: Aries
- The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19.
- synonyms: Aries, Aries the Ram
- A tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
- Uncastrated adult male sheep.
- usage: "a British term is `tup'"
- synonyms: tup
verb
- Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.
- usage: "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
- Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.
- usage: "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- Undergo damage or destruction on impact.
- usage: "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
- synonyms: crash
- Crowd or pack to capacity.
- usage: "the theater was jampacked"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
- (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
- (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
- (v.t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
- (n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
- (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
- (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
- (v.t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
- (n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
- (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill or the like.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(Military) RAM stands for one of the following: raised angle marker; random access memory; random antiterrorism measure
by Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
RAM means Reverse-annuity mortgage.